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CONTENTS
Chapter | Page | |
V | The Letters of the Gaonim | 68 |
Representative Gaonim: Achai, Amram, Zemach, Saadiah, Sherira, Samuel, Hai. | ||
VI | The Karaitic Literature | 75 |
Anan, Nahavendi, Abul-Faraj, Salman, Sahal, al-Bazir, Hassan, Japhet, Kirkisani, Judah Hadassi, Isaac Troki. | ||
VII | The New-Hebrew Piyut | 83 |
Kalirian and Spanish Piyutim (Poems).—Jannai.—Kalir. | ||
VIII | Saadiah of Fayum | 91 |
Translation of the Bible into Arabic.—Foundation of a Jewish Philosophy of Religion. | ||
IX | Dawn of the Spanish Era | 99 |
Chasdai Ibn Shaprut.—Menachem and Dunash, Chayuj and Janach. Samuel the Nagid. | ||
X | The Spanish-Jewish Poets (I) | 107 |
Solomon Ibn Gebirol.—“The Royal Crown.”—Moses Ibn Ezra.—Abraham Ibn Ezra.—The Biblical Commentaries of Ibn Ezra and the Kimchis. | ||
XI | Rashi and Alfassi | 119 |
Nathan of Rome.—Alfassi.—Rashi.—Rashbam. | ||
XII | The Spanish-Jewish Poets (II) | 126 |
Jehuda Halevi.—Charizi. | ||
XIII | Moses Maimonides | 134 |
Maimon, Rambam = R. Moses, the son Maimon, Maimonides.—His Yad Hachazaka and Moreh Nebuchim.—Gersonides.— Crescas.—Albo. |